What’s next? “God told me this, God told me that.” And who’s to say otherwise? When personal revelation becomes the standard, truth becomes relative. It’s a theological free-for-all, where anyone can claim God’s voice to justify their whims, and who can argue with “God told me”?
(The Dissenter) I’ve observed over the last several years a phenomenon that is deeply distressing—the increasing embrace of various forms of continuationism by evangelicals and even within traditionally Reformed circles. Whether it’s the full-blown charismaticism that promotes the continuation of the apostolic sign gifts or the more subtle forms of mystical subjectivism, this dangerous trend is creeping into the church.
These practices, once relegated to the fringes, are now being accepted by those who should know better, wreaking havoc on the very biblical doctrines they claim to uphold, including the sufficiency and authority of Scripture.
First, continuationism in and of itself is nothing more than a rebranding of the ancient Montanist heresy—a dangerous movement that the early church rightly rejected. Montanus, a self-proclaimed “prophet” from the second century, claimed that God was still giving fresh revelations through him and his followers.
Research: New Apostolic Reformation
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18